Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee Draft Report

CLA(4)-10-14

CLA380 -  The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (Amendment) Order 2014

This joint Order between the UK Government and the Devolved Administrations makes amendments to the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Order 2013 (‘the 2013 Order’) in order to finalise simplification of a non-domestic energy efficiency scheme known as the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme.

The UK Government and the Devolved Administrations are proposing that the consumption of energy from supplies that meet the definition of self-supplied renewable electricity will be reported against a zero emissions conversion factor, provided other Government support has not been received for the same supply.

In addition, the UK Government and the Devolved Administrations propose to introduce an exclusion from the CRC Scheme for energy used for metallurgical and mineralogical processes that are deemed eligible for an exclusion from the Climate Change Levy as announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Budget 2013.

The UK Government and the Devolved Administrations have also taken the opportunity to make a number of technical amendments to the 2013 Order to make the wording of the 2013 Order clearer for participants.

Procedure:  Negative

Technical Scrutiny

The following points are identified for reporting under Standing Order 21.2 in respect of this instrument:

1.       Being a Composite Order, this Order has been made in English only.

[Standing Order 21.2(ix) – that the instrument is not made in both English and Welsh.]

Merits Scrutiny

No points are identified for reporting under Standing Order 21.3 in respect of this instrument

Legal Advisers

Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee

March 2014

Government Response

The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (Amendment) Order 2014

This joint Order, between the UK Government and the devolved administrations, makes amendments to the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Order 2013 (‘the 2013 Order’) in order to finalise simplification of a non-domestic energy efficiency scheme known as the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme. It is a UK wide scheme.

It provides for the consumption of energy from supplies that meet the definition of self-supplied renewable electricity to be reported against a zero emissions conversion factor, provided other Government support has not been received for the same supply. In addition, the joint Order introduces an exclusion from the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme for energy used for metallurgical and mineralogical processes that are deemed eligible for an exclusion from the Climate Change Levy,  as announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Budget 2013.

The joint Order also makes a number of technical amendments to the 2013 Order to make the wording of the 2013 Order clearer for participants.

This is an Order in Council, and so has been laid in the National Assembly for Wales, both Houses of Parliament, the Scottish Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly.  Accordingly, it is not considered reasonably practicable for this instrument to be laid, or made, bilingually.